The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation by Luna Nova

Chapter 297

---- For an instant, I saw something in their depthsa flicker of life.

1 didnt know what forbidden magic my mate had used, but keeping someone alive even in death, forcing them into servitude under anothers will, was the most cruel and inhuman thing I had ever witnessed.

---- 182.

MY WEDDING GIFT CELINE "Where are we going?" I asked my trouble-seeking mate after scolding him for the uncomfortable situation from earlier.

"I dont like that Aldric kept you on the sidelines for so many years, " he hissed, not letting go of my hand as we walked down the hallway.

He had his reasons to hate the Dark Realm.

I hated it too," 1 sighed, wanting to leave the past behind.

"T understand, but that doesnt mean I have to like it." He stopped in front of me, his cold hand caressing my cheek.

The intensity of his emotions always wrapped around my soul.

You wanted to know where I was taking you? Come, I have a surprise I had brought here for you," he said before opening a door toa massive library.

I stared in awe at the towering bookshelves, stretching from floor to ceiling, forming what looked like a labyrinth.

Hanging lamps cast soft, shifting shadows, and though the heavy curtains were drawn, pale sunlight filtered in through an enormous terrace.

there, his back to us,

was tattered and stained, darkened by

about him instantly put

to introduce you to

anything you ask, endure

is my wedding gift to

my heart

as eerily familiar, despite the stiffness and unnatural pallor

those same features many

in my own.

reflection.

gave life to my

didnt seem happy to

Neither of us was.

to serve your will," he bowed respectfully, his gaze

that only enraged

forward, unsheathing my claws in pure hatred, and ripped half

of his bones breaking, and from the boot I always

himagain and againfinally releasing all

after accepting my vampire side, I couldn

was the man who had violated my

my